Improved Open Source Testing Tools for Flex

By James Ward | Published: June 9, 2010

Back in the early days of Flex there wasn’t much for doing unit testing, automated testing, performance testing, etc. Thanks to the community there are now numerous open source testing tools for Flex. Here are some recent updates you should definitely check out if you are building production Flex apps:

It’s very exciting to see these community driven projects continue to improve testing for Flex apps.

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  • wasbone

    Thank you.

  • http://www.nacho-lopez.com Nacho López

    Interesting tools!

    Thanks James! :-)

  • http://www.platogo.com Christoph Atteneder

    Nice list James!
    Additionally I use for mocking AsMock(http://asmock.sourceforge.net/) and Make-it-easy-AS3 (http://github.com/ripcurlx/make-it-easy-as3) to write Test Data Builders.

    - Christoph

  • Paul

    I’ve been having trouble getting FlexMonkey with MonkeyLink working to my application, and the forum is offering no help unfortunately (http://tinyurl.com/32xb7sh)
    Any suggestions or further help ideas would be welcome

    Sorry for the cheeky approach, but thanks just in case!
    Paul

  • http://www.firstopinion4u.com Chetan Sharma

    I am getting an exception after deploying flex application on oracle 10g server.
    Kindly help me to resolve below mentioned exception.

    javax.servlet.UnavailableException
    at flex.messaging.MessageBrokerServlet.init(MessageBrokerServlet.java:170)
    at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.3.0)].server.http.HttpApplication.loadServlet(HttpApplication.java:2358)
    at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.3.0)].server.http.HttpApplication.findServlet(HttpApplication.java:4800)
    at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.3.0)].server.http.HttpApplication.getRequestDispatcher(HttpApplication.java:2826)
    at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.3.0)].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:666)
    at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.3.0)].server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJPRequestHandler.java:231)
    at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.3.0)].server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJPRequestHandler.java:136)
    at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.3.0)].util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:192)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

    • http://www.jamesward.com James Ward

      I’m not sure from this stack trace what the error is. Can you email me so we can talk more about the problem you are having? jaward at adobe dot com